Barbie Bentley has everything a woman could want: two kids, a gorgeous home on the West Coast of Florida, loyal friends, and of course, her husband Bud. Yet she’s unhappy, longing for a secret... More > something that has to do with the emptiness in her heart.
Restless, she returns to college where she meets Greek pre-med student, Nick Diamandis. Friendship morphs into an affair when an angry Barbie retaliates after Bud tears down her beloved backyard gazebo.
When her friend Frances risks losing her mobile home to developers, she masterminds a protest march, giving residents time to obtain mortgage money to buy the property. But good intentions can lead to you-know-where, and Barbie ends a triumphant protest day in jail.
Tranquil spring days are soon followed by more drama when friend Elaine is shot by her lover, and Barbie is suspected by a Coral Cove detective of being on the scene with Nick at the time of the shooting. Can things go any worse for Barbie?< Less

I guess everyone wants something in life. It was easy figuring out what each of my BFFs wanted the beginning of our Junior Year at Coral Cove High. For brainy Sudsy it was to get skinny; for... More > upwardly mobile Tamara to get more stuff, and problem child Maria to be treated like she was older than ten. Who knew that bigger problems lurked in the swampy bayous of Coral Cove, like redheaded Paris Breck, threatening to take me down like a clump of stinky seaweed in the Gulf of Mexico.< Less

When sixteen-year-old Brooke Bentley’s green convertible and cell phone conk out during a tropical rainstorm, she believes it’s just bad luck. But when she darts through the dark to a... More > dilapidated Victorian she thinks is the home of a friend and is invited in by a butler wearing a faded black tux, Brooke knows it must be karma. Because how often do you meet a reclusive 1950’s movie star who thinks she’s actress Terry Moore? And how often does someone as charming as eighty-year-old Laura de France insist on turning you into a movie star, too?< Less

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